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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1953
Page
16
A detailed church schedule for Elyria listing services at Bethany Hungarian Mt Nebo Primitive Second Mt Zion Elyria Free Will St Mary St Agnes Holy Cross Jude Sacred Heart Pilgrim locations with service times, pastors, organists, and choir/fellowship events across venues on Washington avenue Seventeenth Street West River Street Middle Avenue and Fourth Street Lake Avenue West Street and Route 20.
A compact listing of local churches includes Disciples of Christ on Washington Avenue with minister H K Shaw and service times, GRAUE Princeton with Rev W W Walker, EMMANUAL Lutheran at Garford Avenue with Rev James Lamaduc, ST JOHN on Broad Street with Rev Henry L Leiske, and FIRST UNITED on Ea Avenue at Second Street led by Rev T M Gilliland. Also noted are SEVENTH DAY listings, Jubilee sessions, and choir directors such as F A Nitschke and Delphinia D Thomas, plus organists and youth programs.
A roster of churches with pastors and weekly services across multiple denominations. Entries include Apostolic Squires Street Elder James H. Smith pastor morning and evening worship times, Sunday school, and midweek programs. Christian and Missionary Alliance Chapel under Rev Maunce S Fikes. Church of the Nazarene on Gulf road at Ohio street. Open Door Church Route 113. Foursquare Gospel at 147 High Street. Ninth Street Church of God. Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ, L D S. Church of God in Christ on Woodford Avenue. First Church of Christ Scientist. Original Church of God on Nelson Street and related devotional and youth activities.
A New Year meditation urges facing 1954 with faith not fear. It notes world dangers yet argues for preparing for the best, citing Sir James Barrie on suspecting others’ motives and sharing a WWI tale of Lieut Gitz Rice and a piano in No Man's Land. It stresses finding goodwill, choosing hopeful views of towns, and becoming lamplighters of faith.
The Rev G R Hargate rector leads Holy Communion at 8 a.m. Family worship at 9 30 a.m. Morning prayer and sermon at 11 a.m. First Sunday Holy Communion. There is nursery and kindergarten in the parish house. J Martin Beck choirmaster Mrs Robert Fountain organist.
The Evangelical Reformed church listings show services at MAGYAR 119 West River Street with Pastor Rev. Louis G. Novak. Sunday school at 9:00 a.m. English and 10:00 a.m. Magyar morning worship. Young people gathering at 5:00 p.m. Nelson Miller serves as organist. ST. PAUL at 1250 Third Street lists Dr. Walter F. Reif as pastor with Divine worship at 10:45 a.m. Russell Dunford is music director and Mrs F C Ruth is organist.
The Elyria Gospel Tabernacle at 156 East Bridge Street lists services led by Rev. H. D. Schmitt. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. young people's session 6:30 p.m. evangelistic service 7:30 p.m. Tuesday orchestra 7:30 p.m. with Mrs. Avery Vincent on organ and Mrs. Chester Henry on piano.
The church invites readers to attend church next Sunday with a reflective New Year message. The Rev. D Carl Yoder offers pious wishes of happiness, strength, hope, labor, leisure, and Christian love to guide a joyful, devout year.
More than 60 men and women from Lodi Chatham and Burbank churches join voices to perform Gerald F Frazee cantata From the Realms of Glory on December 27 at 8 p.m. at Chatham Congregational Church. The program features The Hush of Night and The Shephards with solo and chorus parts for mixed, women's, baritone, and tenor voic es.
Realms of Glory offers a cantata with soloists Boyd Lance Jeanne Leather man Houston Alice Pamer Joe Leatherman Gordon Matthews Eva Baird and Jane Will more. Conductor Gale Williamson and organist Elsie Philips lead the joint program by congregations from Chatham Lodi and Burbank in a civic religious effort.
Time moves on as life ends. yet life continues in spirit. A new year 1954 is seen as a chance for converted experience and added spiritual strength to enable eternal life and service, if permitted another year.
A General Electric vice president told a Syracuse New York audience that television can be a valuable ally for churches. He stated TV offers a way of reaching more individuals than have ever crowded into American churches.
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